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...they expected clear-cut, reassuring statements, they were disappointed. Adolf Hitler's brightest predictions, as he spoke from Munich's Lowenbrdukeller on the 19th anniversary of his first abortive Putsch, were that Germany would hold her lines and some day strike back. His most fervent injunction to the people was that they pray for the Reich's survival "in this war for the existence or destruction of our nation...
Most important defeat was in Baltimore, where the citizens trounced a $32,000,000 waterworks loan despite fervent pleas by their Mayor. San Francisco voters rejected a $7,950,000 appropriation to buy the 50-year-old Market Street Railway, partly because they thought the city fathers were not cut out to be gentlemen motormen. Austin, Tex. citizens rebuffed a $2,000,000 building loan. Cleveland voters tossed out two ambiguous special taxes for "operating, welfare and relief...
...Maltese themselves remained altogether satisfied with the latest rulers. The Maltese farmers, descendants of the Phoenicians, illiterate, pious, aloof, tilling the thin crust of soil which lies on the island's rock, did not much care. But the city Maltese, largely descendants of the retinues of the Knights, fervent Roman Catholics, clever and temperamental, felt uneasy under this new and beefy rule...
Where Now? The ersatz faith which fostered Munich was replaced in Britain last week by other concepts and credos, equally fervent. Of the people who fostered Munich, some were dead, some repentant, some changed hardly a whit. Viscount Halifax, Chamberlain's now-repentant Foreign Secretary at Munich-time, rushed cheerfully from Birmingham (where he told an audience: "Once the shipping problem has been mastered, the Allied Nations can hold out very solid grounds for confidence") to Cabinet meetings in London, then to holiday on his rolling moors in Yorkshire. Droopy-lidded Sir Horace Wilson, Chamberlain's political valet...
...population was 125,000, every one of whom was connected in some way with the production of guns, ammunition or other war equipment." There Reynolds paid a visit to a TNT factory, learned the elements of explosives manufacture and the elements of Communism from one Chekotikhin, "obviously a very fervent member of the Party," who was shocked because Reynolds admitted that he had never visited a Du Pont factory...